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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Cc: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>,
	"git@vger.kernel.org" <git@vger.kernel.org>,
	ernesto.alfonsogonzalez@ge.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] remote.c: specify correct plural form in "commit diverge" message
Date: Tue, 3 May 2016 00:20:08 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160503042008.GB30529@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACsJy8C0mFfHQ+GSdJyXLc=SArnxKfZCFV7LJkoqEPs0ekzDZg@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, May 03, 2016 at 07:20:27AM +0700, Duy Nguyen wrote:

> > I think it needs to be max(ours, theirs)
> >
> >     "Your branch and '%s' have diverged,\n"
> >     "and have 1 and 1 different commit each, "
> >
> > so singular for that too, no?
> 
> I thought that would be "1 and 1 commits". English is complicated :-D
> I don't think Q_() is prepared to deal with this, other languages may
> have different interpretation of "x and y" too. But we can at least
> make the English version right.

Yes, it should still be "1 and 1 commits", I think. An actual human
would probably say something like "and each has %d commit(s)" when the
two values are the same, though.

Note that I do not think the singular case can ever trigger with your
new code. We know that both "ours" and "theirs" are non-zero to get to
this message, which means "ours + theirs" must be at least 2 (barring
negative commit counts, of course :) ).

So you could probably replace the Q_() with just a _().

-Peff

  reply	other threads:[~2016-05-03  4:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-05-02 22:46 bug: incorrect plurality of "commit" in git status Alfonsogonzalez, Ernesto (GE Digital)
2016-05-03  0:12 ` [PATCH] remote.c: specify correct plural form in "commit diverge" message Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2016-05-03  0:16   ` Stefan Beller
2016-05-03  0:20     ` Duy Nguyen
2016-05-03  4:20       ` Jeff King [this message]
2016-05-03  4:43         ` Duy Nguyen
2016-05-03  4:48           ` Jeff King
2016-05-03  9:32             ` Duy Nguyen

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